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Alien Nation by Peter Brimelow 
July 3, 2010
Statue of Liberty: An Appeal
H/T, Paul Nachman for reporting Rush Limbaugh has grasped that the Statue of Liberty is not an article of the Constitution mandating Open Borders.
Rush Limbaugh's Teachable Moment On the "Statue of Liberty"
I include those quotation marks in my title above because the statue's actual name is "Liberty Enlightening the World," which is also a better synopsis of the statue's intended message than is the name more commonly used.
College Return On Investment
Ben Espen blogs:
I did a quick plot of the top 50 schools on the Payscale list versus the 25th percentile SAT scores of incoming students, and some schools definitely do better than others. I also resorted the list by annualized rate of return, and plotted the top 50 again, and the public schools do much better on rate of return than on 30 year net return.
The same schools stand out on both lists:
Georgia Institute of Technology
University of Virginia (UVA)
Brigham Young University (BYU)
My Recent Trip to Mexico and Other Topics, with Silvio Canto, Jr.
I was interviewed by Silvio Canto, Jr., on July 1st. Topics included my recent trip to Mexico, various topics related to Mexico and the border, and the World Cup.
You can listen to the interview here.
A West Virginia Reader Says That Immigration Reform Patriots Will Miss Senator Robert Byrd
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The Fulford File, By James Fulford | "In The Year Of Our Lord"…Independence Day And Loyalty Day
Possibly because, as I write this, it is still only the Third of July, I couldn't find on the Obama White House website a presidential proclamation on the subject of Independence Day. However, in addition to various housekeeping proclamations, and more conventionally patriotic fare, I did find these proclamations on the first two pages: